Summer Course Contemporary Art in Venice - IED Venice

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Program Summary

Arts and Architecture are two expression of human creativity that usually present several points of contact, innovative and sometimes challenging mirror of contemporary reality.

In this scenario the boundary line between the two sectors is more and more fine, as demonstrated by the several museums and new building that are recognized as artworks themselves, designed by architect that are considered as “artist” or “starchitects”. But there are also professionals as Alejandro Aravena, recently awarded with the Pritzker 2016 and Curator of the next 15th International Architecture Exhibition, that have a different idea of what architecture is and have to do.

Starting from the idea that “unlike military wars where nobody wins and there is a prevailing sense of defeat, on the frontlines of the built environment, there is a sense of vitality because architecture is about looking at reality in a proposal key”, the title he chose for the 2016 Biennale is: “Reporting From The Front”, a sort of ...

Program Summary

Arts and Architecture are two expression of human creativity that usually present several points of contact, innovative and sometimes challenging mirror of contemporary reality.

In this scenario the boundary line between the two sectors is more and more fine, as demonstrated by the several museums and new building that are recognized as artworks themselves, designed by architect that are considered as “artist” or “starchitects”. But there are also professionals as Alejandro Aravena, recently awarded with the Pritzker 2016 and Curator of the next 15th International Architecture Exhibition, that have a different idea of what architecture is and have to do.

Starting from the idea that “unlike military wars where nobody wins and there is a prevailing sense of defeat, on the frontlines of the built environment, there is a sense of vitality because architecture is about looking at reality in a proposal key”, the title he chose for the 2016 Biennale is: “Reporting From The Front”, a sort of declaration of intention want to remember to visitors that “architecture did, is and will make a difference in winning battles and expanding frontiers”.

What the summer course in Contemporary Art and Architecture in Venice: the Biennal Exibithion want to analyze is the relation between contemporary art and architecture, looked from different points of view and prospective, so to provide its students with all the knowledge and tools useful to understand the new trend and challenge in Arts and A

Program Highlights

The Venice Biennale was born thanks to a resolution taken by the local City Council on the 19th of April 1893, which proposed to found a “biennial national artistic exhibition” that have to take place in the following year, to celebrate the silver anniversary of the Italian king Umberto and Margherita of Savoy. The event took place for the first time two years later, on 30th of April 1895, while the first official “Architecture Biennale” was organized almost 100 years later, in 1980, becoming more and more an unmissable event for sector’s operators and not only for them.

During the two weeks of the course proposed by IED Venezia, the student will visit all the national pavilions of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition and some collateral exhibitions in Venice with the support of lecturers experts in architecture and contemporary art, having the possibility to meet operators and professionals working in the event organization, who will explain the “behind the curtains”. It will also include fieldtrips and guided visit to the main Art Foundation of the city, as Pinault Foundation (Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana), Prada Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and MUVE (Civic Museum of Venice).

Totally held in English, the course has a duration of 75 hours, from Monday to Friday with a full-time attendance.

Specific prerequisites or educational training are not requested, but a basic bibliography will be provided to the students so to introduce them to the Contemporary art and architecture subjects.